Wire-twister.



No. 795,647. PATENTED JULY 25, 1905. A. REES. WIRE TWISTER. APPLICATIONnun HAY 24, 1904.

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WIRE-TWISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1905.

Application filed May 24, 1904. Serial No. 209,509.

To 6066 w/wm it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAM REES, a citizen of the United States, residingat Bunkerhill, in the county of Miami and State of Indiana, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in ire-Twisters, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in means fortwisting wires; and its object is to provide a compact and inexpensivedevice of this character which can be placed in an ordinary brace andreadily applied to a wire or wires to be twisted.

A further object is to employ means which will quickly and efficientlytwist the wires. With the above and other objects in view the inventionconsists of a frame'composed of clamping-plates which are arranged atopposite sides of and form bearings for shafts which are arranged atright angles to each other and which have gears at their adjoining endswhich mesh so as to permit the transmission of motion from one shaft tothe other. One of the shafts has a groove extending thereinto andthrough its gear, and this groove also extends through the disk whichrotates with said shaft and has oppositely-disposed lugs thereon.

The invention also consists of the further novel construction andcombination of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, showing the preferred form ofmy invention, and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device.Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof; and Fig. 3 is a central verticalsection, the drive-shaft being shown in elevation.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1 and 2 are similarcurved plates adapted to be fastened together by means of screws 3 orany other suitable devices, and. these plates have registering grooves 4and 5 therein,in which are revolubly mountedshafts,

which are disposed at right angles to each said shaft. Lugs 14 arearranged upon the outer face of disk 13 adjacent the opposite sidesthereof, and extending between these lugs and through the disk is agroove 15. Said groove also extends longitudinally Within the shaft 12and the gear 11 and is of sufcient width to permit the insertion of awire thereinto.

When it is desired to twist a wire, the shank 7 is placed within a braceand the shafts 6 and 12 are rotated until the groove 15 registers with aslot 16, formed between the ends of the plates 1 and 2 adjacent thegroove 5. The device is then slipped upon the wire to be twisted untilsaid wire assumes the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. The endof the wire is then looped and placed over one of the lugs I l and theshaft 6 is rotated. Motion is transmitted through gears 10 and 11 toshaft 12, and disk 13 istherefore revolved, and the lugs 14 thereontwist the end of the wire or wrap it around the standing wire. Thisdevice is particularly adapted for use in securing wires to fence-postsand for connecting two wire strands. Should any of the parts becomebroken, they can be readily detached by removing the securing devices 3,so as to disconnect the plates 1 and 2.

In the foregoing description I have shown the preferred form of myinvention, but I do not limit myself thereto, as I am aware thatmodifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit orsacrificing any of the advantages thereof, and I therefore reserve theright to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of myinvention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is Awire-twister comprising two companion plates of elbow form, said platesbeing con nected intermediate of their ends to form terminal clampingportions, said terminal clamping portions being provided withbearingopenings disposed at right angles to each other, a shaftjournaled in one of said bearing-openings and provided with collarsengagingopposite sides of the bearing to hold it from longitudinalmovement and having at one end a beveled gear and at the other end ashank adapted to be engaged by an ordinary brace, a second shaftarranged at an angle to the first-named shaft and journaled in the otherbearing-opening, said second shaft being provided at one end with abeveled gear meshing with the gear on the first-named shaft and at itsother end with a disk or head, said gear and disk or head being arsitesides of said slot with lugs, substantially ranged at opposite ends ofthe bearing and as and for the purpose described.

forming stops to hold the shaft against end- In testimony whereof Iaflixmy signature in wise movement, the second shaft and its gear presence oftwo witnesses.

being provided with a longitudinal bore or ABRAM REES. passage, and thedisk or head with a radial Witnesses:

slot communicating with said bore and pro- WILLIAM ALLEN,

vided at one side of its center and on oppo- FRANK BETZNER.

